Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Khazar-Pecheneg Koppán-Bana Clan, from which according to the tradition the family has descended, probably depicted a horse. The Pecheneg tribes and clans, according to the customs of the steppe, were usually named after the colour of their horses.

From the 16th century onwards a dove also appears on the coat of arms of some members of the family, for instance in Mátyás Cseszneky's  seal from 1597.

 

King Ferdinand II by a royal patent dated on 8 March 1626 in Vienna  granted for Benedek Cseszneky, his wife, Sára Kánya de Budafalva, also for Jakab Patonyi and his wife, Anna Kánya, furthermore for Boldizsár Kánya and his sister, Erzsébet a coat of arms showing a pelican feeding her young with her blood.

This letter of nobility was announced in Pozsony county in 1627 and in Győr and Komárom counties in 1643. However, this was actually the Kánya family's coat of arms, and Benedek Cseszneky was simply included in Boldizsár Kánya's letters patent. 

Count Gyula Cseszneky's coat of arms from 1943 was an enlarged version of the ancient blason.

Currently, the middle arms of the family is the following:

Whereas the lesser arms consists of the inescutcheon only:

The head of the family has a princely-comital coronet over his shield both in his middle and lesser arms.